A Few Things with Jim Barrood

Inside the AI Infrastructure Race: How CoreWeave is Building the Future with Corey Sanders

Episode Notes

We discussed a few things including:

1. His career journey 

2. CoreWeave's trajectory

3. AI ecosystem/timeline

4. AI trends, opps and challenges 

5. Outlook for 2026-2027

Corey is the Senior Vice President of Product at CoreWeave. In this role. Corey runs the product team focused on the Core AI Cloud, building out infrastructure and platform services for future growth and customer success. Corey resides with his family in New Jersey, working from the CoreWeave headquarters in Livingston.

Prior to this role, Corey was the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Cloud for Industry, developing tailored industry solutions at Microsoft as they transform into successful digital businesses. Previously, he led Microsoft Commercial Solution Areas, owning sales strategy and corporate technical sales across Solution Areas and Teams that include Digital Application Innovation, Azure Infrastructure & IoT, Azure Data & AI, Business Applications, Security and Modern Workplace. His focus also included selling the full value of Microsoft cross-cloud solutions and advancing the technical depth of the Microsoft Solutions team. Earlier, Corey was Head of Product for Azure Compute and the founder of Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) business. During that time, he was responsible for products, strategy and technical vision aligned to core Azure compute services. He also previously led program management for multiple Azure services. Earlier in his career, Corey was a developer in the Windows Serviceability team with ownership across the networking and kernel stack for Windows.

In his first role at Microsoft in 2003, Corey served as an intern on the Windows team, after graduating from Princeton University, where he earned his Bachelor S.E. in Computer Science.

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